Example sentences of "had just returned [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One night — I think it was the night before Christmas Eve — we had just returned to the cottage after a hard day next door doing some of the ‘ few finishing-off jobs ’ Nigel had earlier specified . |
| 2 | Van Gelder had just returned to the bridge . |
| 3 | They had just returned to the courtyard and were about to examine the various outbuildings when they heard the sound of running footsteps . |
| 4 | They had just returned to the flat after a long , lazy picnic in the September sunshine , to find Elise out . |
| 5 | As I arrived , I met Anouska Hempel 's husband , the brilliant financier Sir Mark Weinberg , and later I had the pleasure of having their beautifully mannered nine-year-old son Jonathan , who had just returned for the summer holidays from Ludgrove , sitting next to me . |
| 6 | Apart from the sore cracks between most of his toes , the skin was heavily calloused and his heels were covered in blisters ( he had just returned from a particularly arduous walk ) . |
| 7 | I had just returned from a training stint in Lanzarote . |
| 8 | He had just returned from a fresh session with the PM at Downing Street . |
| 9 | He had just returned from a visit in 1937 to the Government fighting front in Spain . |
| 10 | The speaker had just returned from a ‘ little-known place , in Southern Africa — Lesotho , or ‘ Basutoland , as it used to be called ’ . |
| 11 | Poor had just returned from a week in bed with flu when she was picked to test the trapeze . |
| 12 | He looked as though he had just returned from a Chas'n Dave concert or tied up Hercules the horse in the Steptoe and Son barn . |
| 13 | He and Diana had just returned from an exhausting tour of America , plugging Britain and British industry at every turn . |
| 14 | Jakki had just returned from an idyllic holiday in America ( more of which in a moment ) when she was told to get back on a plane because the Material girl had finally agreed to give an interview on Radio One . |
| 15 | Sergeant Bramble had just returned from the Manor House upon his bicycle . |
| 16 | It was interesting that Fishwick Mona had just returned from the Great Yorkshire Show where she had stood third in a strong yearling heifer class . |
| 17 | Jesus had just returned from the country of the Gerasenes . |
| 18 | His name was Mason , and he had just returned from the West Indies , where Mr Rochester had once lived . |
| 19 | Her father had just returned from the public house , and was at his most sensitive to the shame brought upon his noble name by Tess . |
| 20 | When I spoke with him yesterday he had just returned from the funeral of his father-in-law , who had died after months of cancer . |
| 21 | He had just returned after a 3-day affair with another woman which had brought on the crisis . |